Woman Plunges to Her Death After Balcony Railing Fails

A 35-year-old advertising executive died when a balcony railing she was sitting on collapsed, causing to her fall from her 17th-floor Midtown apartment early Thursday morning, police said.

The woman, identified by police as Jennifer Rosoff, was smoking a cigarette with a male friend on the apartment balcony at 400 E. 57th St. when the railing failed at about 12:50 a.m., a law-enforcement official said.

The companion told investigators that he and Ms. Rosoff were on a first date and that she was showing him around her apartment, the law-enforcement official said.

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